"The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the
welfare

statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited
expansion of

credit...

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden'
confiscation of wealth.

Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as
a protector

of property rights."--Alan Greenspan, Former Federal
Reserve Chairman

People who eat 3 servings of fruit per day
have 1/16 the cancer risk of Americans who (on average) eat 3
servings per week.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of
Happiness; and that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any Form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it
is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it."
Declaration of Independence 1776.

I have a variety of information I hope you'll find helpful and
instructive. On my path through life I've tried to have an open
mind. Because of this, I have increasingly found the things I was
taught as a child in my government school simply are not
true. I'm sure nobody deliberately tried to deceive
me. In the USA, however, truth is often at a premium.
And, in times of war, TRUTH is usually the first
casualty. In this Internet age, thankfully, we now have among
the freest and most far-reaching access to information in
history. So, I dedicate this website to the truth, and to the notion that with
increasing global communications, the USA will become less of an isolated
island nation, and that the world will be a more embracing place.

Thanks for visiting. Don't forget to bookmark this site if you
find it valuable.

If you find errors, omissions, broken links, or nits to pick, please drop me a line!

Thanks for reading my page. Now go do something good for yourself!

-Your Host, Mark
Blackburn

Ainsley, Xander, Makayla

My 3 favorite kids on Earth!

"I cannot comprehend how any
man can want anything but the truth." - Marcus
Aurelius Antoninus

"If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we
make violent revolution inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy

"A
nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in
an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
John F. Kennedy // My take: perhaps Julian Assange &
Wikileaks should be commended for
sharing the truth about the questionable activities of our government, not
condemned as a traitor. He may be the "Superman" of the 2000s fighting
for TRUTH, JUSTICE, and the AMERICAN WAY. Senator Feinstein of CA says he is a traitor and should be tried for espionage.
Yet, Congressman Ron Paul said, "We
need more Wikileaks!"

From Fox News: Later
in the discussion, Judge Napolitano asks Congressman Paul directly about his views
on Wikileaks, to which
Paul replied, “in a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big
trouble.”

"I have little interest in
streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to
reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to
extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not
to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the
Constitution or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the
people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover
whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it
is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for
neglecting my constituents "interests, " I shall reply that I was informed
that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the
very best I can." --- Senator Barry Goldwater in his
Presidential Campaign Bid in 1964. (Today, you will NEVER hear such
concern for liberty from our corrupt single party duality. You WILL
hear it from the Libertarians,
however, and certain other independents. Friends tell me I'm crazy
for voting Libertarian. I think people are crazy for voting for
Democrats or Republicans).

"You know the world's gone mad when the best
rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in
the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing
the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war!" -
Comedian Chris Rock

The leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 45 is going
to the doctor" -US Dept of Health - December, 1999 (Related
Article)

In spite of government programs to make us
all wealthy and protect us from every calamity, the average US family is
less than 90 days away from financial failure in the event of a job
loss. Is the low savings rate a reaction to or a consequence
of the government's illusory 'safety net?'

"The weather is HERE, wish you were BEAUTIFUL!"
Jimmy Buffet

All truth goes through three stages. First
it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally it is
accepted as self evident. -- This gives me
hope!

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
--Charles Duell, Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office, advising
President McKinley to close that office in 1899."Liberty means responsibility. That is
why most men dread it." -- George Bernard
Shaw

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power.Abraham
Lincoln

"The whole aim of practical politics is to
keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by
menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-- H.L. Mencken

If God had intended men to go to sea in fiberglass boats, he
would have planted fiberglass trees. --unknown

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others
have let go.”William
Feather

"A wise and frugal government, which shall
restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise
free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and
shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This
is the sum of good government...." Thomas Jefferson First
Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

“What we obtain too cheap,
we esteem too lightly.”Thomas Paine

“Better to be wise by the misfortune of others than
by your own.”Aesop

When a Man talks Dirty to a Woman - It's
Sexual Harassment. When a woman talks Dirty to a Man - It's $ 2.99 per
minute.

"I think legislative assaults on
motorcyclists are totally emotionally, disproportionate and totally
unfair....they're instigated and implemented by people who know nothing
about motorcycling, but have a prejudice. It's easy to curb the
freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own."
--Malcolm Forbes, Sr.

"It is not the function of the government to keep the
citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep
the government from falling into error." - U.S. Supreme
Court

TIME Quote of the
year: "No Viet Cong ever called me nigger"Muhammid
Ali commenting on his principled, heroic refusing of his draft selection - April 30,
1967

As you simplify your life, the laws of the
universe will be simpler: solitude will be not be solitude, poverty
will not be poverty nor weakness weakness" - Henry David
Thoreau

"This country is a
one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called
Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong
to the Libertarians."
-- Hugh Downs

"News is what someone wants to supress.
Everything else is just advertising." Reuven Frank, former
President of NBC NEWS.

"In a time of
universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." --George Orwell

To the eternal chagrin of politicians and the press, most
Americans pay little attention to politics and even less attention to
government. To most, government is like the weather: omnipresent,
uncontrollable, potentiallyannoying and not infrequently threatening.
It can indeed prove an interesting spectacle, but, like the Weather
Channel, it's an acquired taste. - Jerry Taylor,
Cato
Institute

“The only thing that saves
us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.”Eugene McCarthy

“The United States is a nation of
laws:Badly written and
randomly enforced.”Frank
Zappa

"Freedom is the societal condition
that exists when every individual has full (i.e. 100%) control over his
own property." A. J. Galambos

"Son, when you grow up you will know who I really am. I
am just a child like you who has been forced to act responsibly." -Rod
Byrnes

"Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."
--Lady Astor to Winston Churchill

"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it!"
--Churchill's reply

"By a continuous process of inflation, governments can
confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of
their citizens. The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic
law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man
in a million can diagnose."
John Maynard Keynes,
1920

When the people fear the government, there is
tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is LIBERTY.
--
Thomas Jefferson

Spring 2011 I particiapted in the Toastmaster's International Speech
Contest winning my local club, area, and division contests to become one
of 8 finalists in the Hawaii State Speech Championships.
In 2012 I was one of 8 finalists in the impromptu "table topics"
contest. I have met some truly fantastic friends through
Toastmasters, and have really benefitted from my participation